ANALYSIS ON STUDENTSâ€™ WRITING OF RECOUNT TEXT OF THE 2ND GRADESTUDENTS IN SMPN 7 PASURUAN

Eka Makhnuna Octaviani

Sari

Writing text is the ability of the students to arrange the idea from one paragraph toothers and make efforts to connect the idea cohesively and coherently so that is meaningful. Sometimes, many students are able to write text, but not many of them are able to write the text using the correct structures and features of the text. The writer decided observes the studentsâ€™ writing ability in the recount text. This includes errors on tenses in the studentsâ€™ writing assignment. In analyzing the data, the researcher employs Dulaysâ€™ theory of errors. The errors are analyzed based on morphological and syntactical view, they are classified into; omission, addition, misformation and misordering. The research design applied in this research was qualitative contentanalysis. In order to collect it, the researcher needed to use writing assignment documentation as the instrument. The result showed the total number of errors based on surface strategy taxonomymade by the eighth grade students of SMPN 7 Pasuruan in writing recount text was 313items. The misformation errors were the highest numbers of errors that were found in the studentsâ€™ writing recount.